terryweathers
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50/50 City/Hwy, 1600 miles on the truck. 13.2 MPG is what I'm getting on 17 SCREW Stock
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Mine is getting 15.5 in city driving and with me getting into it because it is so much fun. I'm thinking on a long highway trip with the cruise on doing 80 I should be right around 20.
For comparison:
On summer gas (winter gas has less energy) I get between 15.5 and 16.5 mpg with my 2011 6.2L SCAB in 2WD. This is absolutely unfailing. It doesn't matter whether the driving is predominantly city or highway. Surprisingly, speed doesn't matter either. What does matter is my right foot. Drive sanely and the big V8 will produce surprisingly good gas mileage.
You guys who waited for a GEN2 because you thought that a V6 with twin blowers would produce markedly better fuel economy forgot something important:
Physics. It takes a certain amount of energy to move a heavy, big body, high profile vehicle down the road. To do the same work requires the expenditure of the same amount of energy. That energy will come from the fuel consumed and from nowhere else. Miracles do not happen between fill-ups. Physics happens.
50/50 City/Hwy, 1600 miles on the truck. 13.2 MPG is what I'm getting on 17 SCREW Stock
80% HW/20% city. 70-75mph current tank I went through. 552 mile @ 18.4mpg. Stock truck.